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Mount Sefton
- Prominence
- 1,073 m3,520 ft
- Isolation
- 11 km
- Tonight
- -11°CLight snow · Wind 14 km/h NW
Mount Sefton is a 3,151 m (10,338 ft) mountain in the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, Canterbury Region, New Zealand.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,151 m · 10,338 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Aoraki / Mount Cook (3,724 m)
- Range
- Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana
- Region
- Canterbury Region, New Zealand
- Protected area
- Westland Tai Poutini National Park
- Coordinates
- 43.6829° S, 170.0418° E
Mount Sefton 3D map
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Mount Sefton terrain and contours
100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Mount Sefton elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Mount Sefton weather
Today · Light snow at night · -11 / -5°C (12 / 23°F) · 1.3 mm · Wind 14 km/h NW
Mount Sefton forecast for the summit, about 3,151 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 581 m.
- Today-11°-5°1.3 mm14 km/h NWBase 4 / 10°
- Sun-7°-5°35.5 mm23 km/h NWBase 8 / 10°
- Mon-13°-5°164.7 mm38 km/h NWBase 3 / 11°
- Tue-14°-8°4.1 mm14 km/h NBase 1 / 8°
- Wed-12°-10°51.3 mm19 km/h NWBase 4 / 5°
- Thu-20°-11°7.3 mm15 km/h NWBase -4 / 4°
- Fri-10°-10°22.5 mm13 km/h NWBase 5 / 5°
- Sat-8°-7°46.8 mm14 km/h NWBase 8 / 8°
- Sun-6°-6°142.1 mm25 km/h NWBase 9 / 10°
- Mon-12°-9°8.0 mm14 km/h SEBase 3 / 7°
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Sefton
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Sefton, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Sefton Bivvy
Nearest campsite
White Horse Hill Campground
Nearest parking
White Horse Hill Car Park
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Sefton BivvyHut | 2.8 km E |
| Douglas Rock HutHut | 3.8 km NNW |
| Hooker HutHut | 4.5 km ESE |
| White Horse Hill CampgroundCampsite | 5.7 km SE |
| White Horse Hill Car ParkParking | 5.8 km SE |
| Bivouac siteCampsite | 6.0 km E |
| Parking | 7.1 km SE |
| Parking | 7.1 km SE |
Slope
Share of the 8.2 × 8.2 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 62.7% of the 67 km² view
- Relief in view
- 2,496 m low point 581 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4.1 km, measured from the Mount Sefton summit.
Summit list 9
- 1Mount Brunner2,643 m 1.3 km SW
- 2Mount Stephen2,546 m 1.7 km SW
- 3The Footstool2,764 m 1.9 km ENE
- 4Sharks Teeth2,518 m 2.6 km SSW
- 5Cadogan Peak2,449 m 2.9 km ENE
- 6Mount Thomson2,642 m 3.0 km SSW
- 7Scott Peak2,537 m 3.3 km WNW
- 8Eagle Peak2,548 m 4.0 km SSW
- 9Du Faur Peak2,330 m 4.0 km ENE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4.1 km; 114 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Ranunculus sericophyllus15
- Hector's Daisy14
- Hectorella caespitosa13
- Kea11
- Snow Groundsel10
- Southern Alps Gecko8
Where Mount Sefton sits
- Region
- Canterbury Region22New Zealand112Oceania282
- Protected area
- Westland Tai Poutini National Park5
Nearby places
Mount OllivierPeak · 1,933 m↑5.1 km SSE
La PerousePeak · 3,078 m↑9.9 km NNE
Aoraki / Mount CookPeak · 3,724 m↑13 km NE
Malte-BrunPeak · 3,199 m↑25 km ENE
Lake Matheson100 m↑28 km NNW
More in the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana 6
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How accurate is this?
74 m low This 3D map reads 3,077 m at the summit; the official height is 3,151 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 89 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,151 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,077 m | -74 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,062 m | -89 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-03-21)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia